Sogen He
English title: To The Pampa
Series title: Haha O Tazunete Sanzan Ri
- Studio
- Nippon Animation
Synopsis
Marco is a young boy living in Genoa, Italy, together with his father Pietro. But the family is not complete, for Marco's mother left for Argentina around a year earlier in order to find work. Letters from her arrive regularly until one day they suddenly stop. Worry for his mother and what might have happened to her overcomes the young boy. Marco thus decides to embark upon a journey to Argentina in the hope of being reunited with his mother.
At first, Pietro is opposed to Marco's plan, but moved by his son's enthusiasm, he eventually allows the boy to go. So begins Marco's long journey of the heart.
Marco encounters many people throughout his travels, and finds maturity and self-acceptance as a result of his experiences. His journey ends when he is reunited with his ailing mother and the two make their way back to Genoa together.
At first, Pietro is opposed to Marco's plan, but moved by his son's enthusiasm, he eventually allows the boy to go. So begins Marco's long journey of the heart.
Marco encounters many people throughout his travels, and finds maturity and self-acceptance as a result of his experiences. His journey ends when he is reunited with his ailing mother and the two make their way back to Genoa together.
Characters
Marco, Fiolina, Peppino, Conchetta, Tonio, Pietro, Leonardo, Anna, Julietta, Pablo, Fana, Mario, Clara, Fernadez
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Isao Takahata, Hajime Okayasu
Producing
- Producer
- Nakajima Junzo, Matsudo Takaji
- Executive Producer
- Motohashi Koichi
Writing
- Writer
- Kazuo Fukazawa
Voices
- Voice
- Matsuo Yoshiko (Marco), Mieko Nobusawa (Fiolina), Ichiro Nagai (Peppino), Noriko Ohara (Conchetta), Kazuyuki Sogabe (Tonio), Kiyoshi Kawakubo (Pietro), Takuzo Kamiyama (Leonardo), Yukiko Nikaido (Anna), Sachiko Chijimatsu (Julietta), Mie Higashi (Pablo), Keiko Yokozawa (Fana), Kei Tomiyama (Mario), Reiko Takefuji (Clara), Hikaru Miyata (Fernadez), Akiko Tsuboi (Narrator)
Music
- Music
- Koichi Sakata
Animation
- Animator
- Kotabe Yoichi (Animation Director)
- Assistant Animation Director
- Okuyama Reiko
Crew
- Created By
- Edmondo de Amicis
- Character Designer
- Yoichi Kotabe
- Art Director
- Mukuo Takamura
- Layout
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Storyboards
- Tomino Yoshiyuki
- Continuity
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Director's Helpers
- Yokota Kazuyoshi, Baba Ken'ichi, Yasuo Kageyama
- Audio Director
- Yasuo Uragami
- Photography Director
- Keishichi Kuroki
Production notes
Based partly on Edmondo de Amicis' novel "Cuore," which was also adapted as "Heart: An Italian Schoolboy's Journal."
Re-edited into a 107-minute theatrical version in 1980 by Hajime Okayasu, the story was remade by director Kozo Kusuba as "Marco" (1999).
The story was parodied in Akita Saito's 1991 film "3,000 Leagues in Search of Osomatsu's Curry."
Re-edited into a 107-minute theatrical version in 1980 by Hajime Okayasu, the story was remade by director Kozo Kusuba as "Marco" (1999).
The story was parodied in Akita Saito's 1991 film "3,000 Leagues in Search of Osomatsu's Curry."